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About Leslie Kilstofte |
A native of Albuquerque, NM, Leslie Nash Kilstofte received her musical training at Boston University's School for the Arts, and received a New World Symphony fellowship under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas, traveling and performing across South America, Japan, France, Scotland, England, and the United States. While serving as teaching assistant to cellist Michael Haber at the University of Akron, she was assistant principal of the Akron Symphony, and played regularly with the Columbus Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Canton Symphony, and the Cleveland Opera and Ballet orchestras.
Kilstofte has been a participant in numerous summer music festivals, including the Colorado Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, Tanglewood, Interlochen, and the Festival at Sandpoint, and has extensive chamber music experience as well, playing festivals in Germany, Italy and the U.S. with such luminaries as Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jeffrey Kahane and Robert McDuffie. She has held a Banff Music Centre residency, and most recently performed for a season with Opera Nordfjord, Norway and served as guest clinician at the Malmø Academy of Music in Sweden. A solo performance of "You, unfolding" (a piece written for her by composer/husband Mark Kilstofte) with the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC was later featured on NPR's "Performance Today". She is currently serving as principal cellist of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. |